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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS -2.58%)
Q2Â 2020 Earnings Call
Aug 4, 2020, 5:00 p.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good afternoon. My name is Jerome. I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Kratos Defense and Security Solutions Second Quarter 2020 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]
I would now like to turn the call over to Ms. Marie Mendoza. Please go ahead.
Marie Mendoza -- Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us for the Kratos Defense and Security Solutions Second Quarter 2020 Conference Call. With me today is Eric DeMarco, Kratos' President and Chief Executive Officer; and Deanna Lund, Kratos' Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin the substance of today's call, I'd like everyone to please take note of the safe harbor paragraph that is included at the end of today's press release. This paragraph emphasizes the major uncertainties and risks inherent in the forward-looking statements we will make this afternoon. Please keep these uncertainties and risks in mind as we discuss future strategic initiatives, potential market opportunities, operational outlook and financial guidance during today's call. Today's call will also include a discussion of non-GAAP financial measures as that term is defined in Regulation G. Non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation from or as a substitute for financial information presented in compliance with GAAP. Accordingly, at the end of today's press release, we have provided a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the company's financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP.
With that, I will now turn the call over to Eric DeMarco.
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, Marie, and good afternoon. Kratos continues to follow what we believe to be industry best practices during the continuing COVID-19 crisis, including working at home where practical, social distancing, facility cleaning, temperature checks and only mission essential travel occurring. We also continue to monitor and work closely with our supply chain and vendors identifying and formulating additional sources and backup plans where we can for critical or potentially vulnerable sources to Kratos' programs, and we have had no significant supply chain impacts to date. Though our primary customers, United States government and the Department of Defense, work at home, social distancing and travel restriction requirements continue to impact the timing of certain expected contract awards and delay certainly planned for system flights at government ranges and the achievement of certain contractual milestones, including customer product acceptance, the Kratos team continues to successfully adjust, adapt, manage and execute in a challenging environment. As you know, Kratos is a technology company and at Kratos, affordability is a technology. Our proven leading technology system integration approach designed to reduce financial and schedule risk, accelerate development, testing and fielding and lower costs continues to be strongly desired by our customers, and we believe it is an important competitive differentiator for our company. We also expect that Kratos' venture capital and commercial-based rapid system development, fielding an overall affordability business model will be even more valuable to our customer base in a future environment, which includes increased federal government deficits and potential reduced discretionary spending.
We believe that Kratos as the affordable alternative technology company and system provider is in the right place, at the right time with the right products and at the right price point for today's environment,to address U.S. mission-critical national security priorities. The recapitalization of strategic weapon systems continues to provide a growing and overall strong market opportunity environment for virtually all of our business areas as represented by our 1.2:1 book-to-bill ratio in Q2 and our approximate $8 billion bid and opportunity pipeline. In the second quarter, Kratos' space and satellite communications business continued its transition to a software-defined based business, including a focus on low earth orbit, mid-earth orbit and geostationary orbit satellite systems and as related to missile defense and hypersonic system applications. Within Kratos' Space division, we have been making substantial investments to create the world's first dynamic digital space ground product family. With the coming of 5G, and new software-defined spacecraft, the intersection and integration of space and terrestrial networks, particularly for mobility-based defense and commercial applications has become very clear. Additionally, new developmental programs such as Hypersonic and Ballistic Space Tracking Sensor, or HBTSS, and Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node, or TITAN, will require a new and resilient dynamic ground infrastructure. Accordingly, a new Kratos product family, the first of which we expect to begin to deliver in Q1 of 2021 is designed to enable spacecraft and satellite operators to securely connect, operate and manage within terrestrial software-defined networks, providing a seamless space-to-terrestrial ground platform. We believe this same technology can also be used as part of the $1.5 billion-plus investment necessary for clearing the C-band spectrum within the U.S. for 5G.
And we are in discussions with many of the satellite operators as they begin their transformation to digital infrastructure. We are very excited about Kratos' 5G and our dynamic software-defined strategy. In the second quarter, we announced the acquisition of ASC, an antenna system and technology leader, positioning Kratos to be an even more comprehensive space and satellite communication systems provider to our DoD national security and other customers. ASC fits squarely in Kratos' stated strategic model of being a unique, differentiated technology, product and system provider and being either number one or number two in our market space. In our Space business, we were recently informed that one of our largest and most important contracts which was coming up for recompete at the end of this year, has now been extended by the customer with Kratos through the end of 2021. This is an outstanding piece of news for our company as Kratos now has only one significant recompete coming up at the end of this year, 2020, which is in our training business. Representative space programs Kratos supports include OPIR, SBIRS, WGS, AEHF, MUOS and GPS, and we are currently forecasting our space business to have a strong Q3 and Q4 of this year. Our KTT and engine business, next-generation and affordable system development initiatives and programs which are focused on the expected to be extremely large, attritable, expendable and reusable jet drone and tactical missile markets remained on track and on budget in Q2. At this time, we have several Kratos next-generation affordable engines in our class running, including for the Gray-Wolf low cost cruise missile system, which was recently reported. As I mentioned, Kratos' affordable high-performance engines are focused on new and planned for cruise missiles, powered weapons and drone systems, including as would be associated with the Skyborg and Golden Horde Vanguard programs and also ABMS. Our objective is for Kratos' engines to be disruptive market and industry growth driver, similar to our expectations for Kratos' high-performance jet drones.
The class of engines Kratos is focused on is typically the number one bill of material cost item in the related system, and our plan is to deliver more efficient, powerful and capable engines at a significantly reduced cost so that more capable systems can be procured in larger quantities at lower prices. We also see our engines further increasing Kratos' drone and tactical weapon systems' affordability and low-cost competitive advantage while bringing greater value to the customer set. We are currently forecasting to achieve certain important ground and flight test milestones in our engine businesses in the second half of this year and next year, and we believe that we are on track for our plan to achieve future production for our engines. As we discussed on our first quarter call, KTT's commercial business areas are being adversely impacted by the global COVID-19 pandemic and as a result, KTT's financial performance for the second quarter came in below our expectations. Unfortunately, this impact is now expected to continue throughout the remainder of 2020, with the current estimated impact being incorporated in our updated financial forecast. Kratos' C5ISR business continues to perform well, including a large second quarter missile defense-related contract award. Our C5ISR business supports missile defense, space and satellite, strategic triad, the unmanned drone area, high-power directed energy, combat and other systems. As previously reported, earlier this year, Northrop Grumman announced that Kratos' C5ISR is part of the Northrop Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent team, and we are looking forward to supporting Northrop, an incredible partner of Kratos' on this critically important national security program. On the $50 million contract award that Kratos received early in Q1 of this year, which was subsequently protested by a competitor, the customer is currently going through a procurement reevaluation, and we are awaiting the determination.
We are currently forecasting strong revenue and EBITDA performance in the second half of 2020 for our C5ISR business unit with a significant amount of the expected production and deliveries, driven by a 2.4:1 second quarter book-to-bill ratio for this business. Kratos' Israeli-based microwave electronics business continued to perform strongly in the second quarter of 2020 as we increased production on certain programs, and we are currently forecasting significant revenue and profit growth in the second half of this year as the first as compared to the first half as these programs ramp. The electromagnetic spectrum and microwave electronics area are two of the highest priority and well-funded areas in both the United States and international. And the U.S. and its allies pivot and focus to potential peer/near-peer conflict and Kratos' microwave business is uniquely positioned to address and grow in this mission-critical area. Representative systems, Kratos' microwave business supports include F-15, F-16, Gripen, Iron Dome, Barak, Spyder, Arrow and Sling of David. Kratos' Rocket Support Services business had a very solid second quarter, and we are expecting continued solid performance for the second half of the year for this business. RSS is currently working on a number of ballistic missile target and other program launch systems with Kratos' 2021 mission launch portfolio looking very substantial based on current production and the launch manifests. Similar to Kratos' satellite, C5ISR and microwave electronics business areas, RSS is uniquely positioned in the well-funded missile defense and hypersonic program opportunity areas. Kratos' Training Solutions business had lower-than-expected revenues and EBITDA in Q2, and we are focusing on a large international program recompete at the end of this year that I mentioned previously. Our unmanned target drone systems business continued strong execution in the second quarter with the U.S. Navy, Air Force and Army being our primary customers. We continue to track toward full rate production on the Navy SSAT and another program, increased future quantities with the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force, and we're tracking for our annual revenue target drone objective of $250 million in revenue.
International target drone demand also remained strong driven by systems testing and evaluation requirements related to the recapitalization of weapon systems, and we are currently expecting two large drone system orders in the second half of the year. Since our last report to you, we have continued to make significant progress in Kratos' tactical drone system business with the total addressable market opportunity for this class of drone and for the engines they utilize continuing to expand. At the end of July, it was reported that Kratos was one of four recipients of a $400 million ceiling Mac Skyborg IDIQ contract. Skyborg, one of three USAF Vanguard programs outlined in the Air Force Science and Technology 2030 initiative, is an affordable unmanned system that will partner with fighter jets and utilize artificial intelligence to conduct strike and intelligence collection missions that are too dangerous for manned aircraft, significantly increasing capability and being a force multiplier of the United States Air Force. The Vanguard initiatives objective is to accelerate the time it takes to go from research to operational use, and the USAF has stated that it wants Skyborg to be a program of record and drones to be fielded and operationally capable by 2023. Under the Air Force's Skyborg program, as reflected in a recent Air Force video, there are envisioned to be multiple types or classes of drones, including expendables like Kratos' Airwolf, reusables, like our Gremlins or our Mako, attritables like our Valkyrie, and exquisite like certain of Kratos' other program drones, with these various drone classes and missions specifically designed for permissive, contested and highly contested environments. We believe that in addition to Kratos' partnership with the Air Force on the XQ-58A and other related initiatives, we are uniquely positioned for future Skyborg the opportunity, including the Valkyrie program, which is a partnership between the Air Force Research Laboratory and Kratos, to develop semi-autonomous drones that can work in concert with unmanned fighters.
The Valkyrie is affordable. It is flying today. It is not a model, a PowerPoint or an exquisite high cost aircraft. As part of Kratos' partnership with the USAF on the XQ-58A, we have two Kratos-owned Valkyries in inventory that can be utilized or delivered to the Air Force immediately. And we have a hot production line, with the first of an additional 12 Valkyries currently scheduled to come off the line in March of next year with an additional one or two a month thereafter. Kratos is currently producing approximately 150 jet drone systems in this class a year in the United States, including our tactical Mako, Gremlin, Airwolf and Valkyrie systems, each of which are flying today. As a result of Kratos' long production experience with this class of drone, Kratos' supply chain, our vendor base, subcontractors and partners are all onboard and in place, producing and delivering product in quantities today. As a result, we know the build time and actual cost to manufacture and produce our drones. There is no guessing. And no expected large cost overruns or surprises to our customers from what we quote them. As I mentioned, Kratos' drones are made in the United States of America in concert with our U.S. government partners and U.S.-based suppliers. Through our partnership with U.S. Air Force, all Kratos drones, including the Valkyrie, are designed from inception to be runway independent, both at launch and at recovery. As a result, the Valkyrie can be pre-deployed and recovered virtually anywhere and has certain unrefueled range, performance, payload, survivability and other characteristics all of which were determined in concert with our partner, the Air Force Research Lab. The Kratos Valkyrie was also specifically designed to fit inside standard shipping containers, further reflecting the expeditionary nature of the Kratos Systems.
Kratos' tactical drone systems, those flying today and in development, including in our very close hold ghost works are all a result of a multiyear strategy, plan and methodical execution, beginning with the DoD unmanned systems strategic road map and the evolving Air Force vision, including, as described by the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Dr. Roper, and the Air Force Chief of Staff, General Brown. For Skyborg, the most current expected time line and related milestones as recently reported by the Air Force include a kickoff meeting with all four Skyborg winners invited followed by the down-select for drone system experimentation. The Air Force deciding in the next 60 to 90 days which of the four Skyborg prototyping competitors will have their drones participate in operational experiments at multiple test centers around the country to produce the service's first autonomous vehicle for manned-unmanned teaming. The number of contracts the service will award for these exercises as well as the number of drones procured overall and from each individual vendor will depend upon the USAF, funding availability and drone unit pricing. The Air Force has identified roughly 15 different mission sets that the program seeks to prove in an effort to achieve operational capability for the Skyborg drone. The information and data from the drones provided, flights and experiments will assist in determining the ultimate time line for the planned program of record and rate reduction. We believe that the Air Force Vanguard's Skyborg program is planned to move ahead very rapidly, including the Skyborg program. We believe that the total addressable market opportunity for Kratos' class of drone systems and for our engine business is continuing to increase with program opportunities that we can discuss, including Golden Horde, ABMS, LCASD, LCAAT and ACE, all of which we believe that Kratos' Valkyrie and other drones are uniquely qualified to rapidly and affordably address, as I previously discussed.
Related to the market opportunity, as I mentioned before, I encourage you to view the Skyborg Air Force Vanguard program video, which provides the USAF vision and notes the various types of Skyborg drones that are part of the Air Force's planned future force structure and CONOPS. Additionally, it was just reported that the Air Force recently disclosed their vision for expendable, attritable and other drones as related to the ABMS program, including price and cost points, which we are all very excited about. In addition to the Kratos' Valkyrie, as to certain other Kratos tactical drones we can discuss, our Mako jet drone continues to execute with certain customers and platforms, including as was recently publicly reported. The Gremlins program with our partner, Dynetics, has made important progress since our last report to you, even with the program experiencing certain COVID-19 DoD range-related and other delays. Additional flights are now scheduled for Q3, Q4 of this year, and we fully believe and expect Gremlins to become a major future Kratos program, similar to our expectations for Valkyrie. Kratos' Thanatos program is on track, and we continue to have high future expectations for Thanatos, similar to our expectations for Valkyrie and Gremlins. On our Rattlesnake program with our partner, AeroVironment, this has also made substantial progress since our last report to you, and is currently expected to fly later this year based on current range scheduling, which has also been delayed due to COVID. And program Airwolf has also continued to move forward, including certain payload and system integration efforts. However, similar to Kratos' Rattlesnake, ABMS, Gremlin and other programs, our planned Airwolf flights have been delayed due to the impact of certain DoD range and travel COVID-19 related restrictions, with a series of Airwolf flights now scheduled for later on this year and in Q1 of 2021, and we also continue to have high expectations for this program.
We are extremely excited and proud of what Kratos has accomplished, and we remain focused on our long-term strategic objective of being a leading drone system provider to the DoD in this expected to be extremely large new market space. We understand that the government processes and related time lines for contract awards, system deployments, test flights, etc., can be methodical and fluid and are not always consistent with desired public company expectation time lines. I can assure you that at Kratos, we are focused on what we can control and the ultimate success of the long-term strategic plan and vision we have communicated to you. As I mentioned before, we believe that we have the future tactical drone system market will be in the billions of dollars and various types of drone system opportunities in the Kratos class. We believe that we have the right partner, the United States Air Force, the right high-performance drone systems at the right time and at the right affordable cost point to obtain a large market share and deliver value to our customers and our shareholders. Deanna?
Deanna Lund -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Thank you, Eric. Good afternoon. Kratos' second quarter of 2020 revenues of $170.4 million slightly exceeded our estimate of $160 million to $170 million. KGS reported revenues of $128.4 million, down from $145.4 million in the second quarter of 2019. As expected, our second quarter 2020 KGS revenues were impacted by a reduction of approximately $12.1 million in the company's training solutions business, which reduction was principally related to the previously disclosed reduction in scope of certain international contracts. KGS' second quarter 2020 revenues also reflect the continued reduction of approximately $3.6 million in the company's legacy government services business and reductions of approximately $6 million in the company's international satellite communications deployment business and $3.3 million in the company's KTT commercial aerospace business area, which have both been impacted by COVID-19. Organic revenue growth in the second quarter of 2020 was experienced in our microwave products, ballistic missile defense and C5ISR businesses. Our adjusted EBITDA of $15.3 million was in our expected range of $12 million to $16 million. Kratos' adjusted EPS of $0.08 per share also was within our forecast of $0.05 to $0.09 per share for the quarter. GAAP EPS was a loss of $0.01 per share. In the second quarter, our Unmanned Systems segment generated adjusted EBITDA of $3 million, down from $3.5 million in the second quarter of 2019, primarily reflecting the higher mix of development programs, including Thanatos and low-rate initial production programs, which are typically lower margin programs than full rate production programs and also reflecting increased infrastructure costs. This increased mix of development programs is expected to continue into 2020 until certain new production awards or increases in existing production programs are received. KGS generated adjusted EBITDA of $12.3 million, down from $15.7 million in Q2 of 2019 and operating income of $7.7 million, down from $10.7 million in Q2 of 2019.
A more favorable mix of operating margin and adjusted EBITDA margin in the company's space and satellite, C5ISR and microwave products businesses in Q2 2020 were offset primarily by expected less favorable margins in the company's training solutions business as a result of the completion of a large international fixed-price contract at the end of 2019 and due to a less favorable mix in the company's turbine business. Our Q2 consolidated operating income was $2.9 million down from the second quarter of 2019 operating income of $9 million, reflecting a higher mix of development programs, increased infrastructure costs, an increase in noncash stock compensation expense of $2 million, increased R&D expenses of $1.5 million, primarily in our space and satellite business and increased depreciation expense of $200,000. Our adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter is from consolidated continuing operations including net income or loss attributable to noncontrolling interest and excludes noncash stock-based compensation costs of $4.8 million, acquisition and restructuring-related costs of $1.1 million and foreign transaction loss of $100,000. On a GAAP basis, net loss for the second quarter was $700,000, which includes a tax benefit of $1.8 million and loss from discontinued operations of $200,000. Moving on to the balance sheet and liquidity. Our cash balance was $397.2 million at June 28, which includes $240.5 million of net proceeds raised in the company's June equity offering. At quarter end, we had 0 amounts outstanding on our bank line of credit and $5.7 million of letters of credit outstanding. Debt outstanding was $295.9 million at quarter end and net cash at quarter end was $101.3 million. Cash flow generated from operations for the second quarter was $6.8 million, less capex of $7.7 million for free cash flow used from operations of $900,000. During the quarter, we collected $600,000 related to the retained working capital of the legacy PSS business that we sold in 2018, bringing the total receipts we have collected to $6.2 million since we sold the business.
Our contract mix for the quarter was 74% of revenues generated from fixed-price contracts, 20% from cost-plus fixed-price contracts fixed fee, and 6% generated from time and material contracts. Revenues generated from contracts with the U.S. federal government during the quarter were approximately 76% including revenues generated from contracts with the DoD, non-DoD federal government agencies and FMS contracts, which were approximately 5%. We generated 8% from commercial customers and 16% from foreign customers. Our third quarter and full year 2020 guidance includes the expected contribution from the recently closed ASC Signal acquisition. We are providing third quarter 2020 guidance of revenues of $195 million to $205 million and adjusted EBITDA of $17 million to $20 million. We are increasing our full year 2020 guidance for revenues from $720 million to $760 million to $740 million to $780 million primarily reflecting the expected contribution of the ASC Signal acquisition for the second half of 2020. We are maintaining our adjusted EBITDA full year guidance of $72 million to $78 million, which reflects the expected contribution from the ASC Signal acquisition, offset primarily by margin compression in our commercial aero turbine business, which has been impacted by COVID-19. We are affirming our full year 2020 free cash flow guidance of generation of $7 million to a use of $18 million, including capital expenditures of approximately $38 million to $42 million. Our third quarter and full year 2020 guidance includes our current assumptions of the expected impact of COVID-19 on our industry, business and operations. We will provide an update to these assumptions and the expected impact to our financial projections, if any, in our third quarter earnings conference call.
Our adjusted EBITDA guidance reflects an overall forecasted improved revenue mix and profitability in our DoD and national security business areas, including in our space, satellite, unmanned systems and microwave electronics operations. Kratos' fiscal year 2020 guidance excludes any potential contribution from expected Valkyrie or other tactical drone production or system contracts, with the expected orders to be taken into consideration and our financial forecast adjusted once such contracts or orders are received and the related financial contribution can be estimated. The 2020 capital expenditure forecast currently includes expected outlays of $15 million to $17 million associated with the production of 12 Valkyrie aircraft prior to receipt of expected customer awards and therefore, reflected as company-owned tactical drones until receipt of the related customer award, at which time the costs incurred may be transferred to project costs. Kratos will adjust these initial forecasted capital expenditure outlays and the ultimate balance sheet classification of these investments once expected customer orders and the nature of the contract terms and related financial contribution can be estimated. Eric?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, Deanna. We'll now turn it over to the moderator for any questions.
Questions and Answers:
Operator
[Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Josh Sullivan from The Benchmark. Your line is now open.
Josh Sullivan -- The Benchmark -- Analyst
Hi, good morning, Eric, Deanna. Good afternoon. On Skyborg, congratulations on the win. How should we think about IDIQ task orders? You got the end of the fiscal year coming up. Is there an impetus to make an award? And then can you just remind us what's in the budget for 2020 and 2021 at this point?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Right. So Josh, we're as the Air Force has tried to give guidance publicly, we're in source selection right now. So we really can't say much more than what we said in our prepared remarks, which a week or two ago, the Air Force indicated that they would like to make the first task order award within 60 to 90 days and that was a couple of weeks ago, the Air Force made that comment. On the funding specifically for Skyborg, the Air Force recently made a comment that they have adequate funding to execute what they've been articulating for both this year and all of next year. They've said that. They've said adequate. As you know, Congress has made a couple of they've made one congressional add that's law, that added $100 million to I think they had like $120 million on their RDT&E accounts last year for things like this. And there is right now, there is a negotiation going on between the Senate and the House on the 2021 budget, I think the Senate had looked for an add of like $128 million. So it appears there is adequate funding for them, I'm going to say, a couple of hundred million in each year, based on looking at the different accounts to execute what they want to get done, tracking toward a program of record, as they've said, in the following year.
Josh Sullivan -- The Benchmark -- Analyst
Got it. And then just on the new Trump administration interpretation of drone export rules, can you talk about your exposure to that and any international interest in the drone portfolio at this point?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Yes. So first of all, I want to be very clear, we are focused primarily on the United States Department of Defense and the Pentagon. That's where we are focusing the vast, vast majority of our resources. We have received state department approval to discuss, market both the Valkyrie and the Mako in a number of countries and think Five Eyes and maybe beyond that. It is getting a little competitive in a couple of the countries internationally. And so I don't want to get into too many details because we've got some plans that we're going to be that we're executing, but we're primarily focused on the U.S. and let's say that there are a couple of them internationally, that we were executing some plans that are very confidential right now.
Josh Sullivan -- The Benchmark -- Analyst
Got it. And then just switching over to the space opportunity. You talked about software-defined solutions. How do you see this developing? What's the moat Kratos has around it? We saw the terrestrial communication systems like jitters walk down this road. What are your thoughts about the market size? How much of it can you capture? If you could just talk a little bit about that.
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Right. Yes. This is one that has kind of overshadowed what we're doing in the drone area, but the number of LEOs and MEOs that are have gone up and that are going up. And the number of spot beam we're going more to spot beam satellite and a high throughput satellite. This is driving an entire next-generation of ground equipment, and all this obviously ties into when it relates to what's going on with 5G and converting analog signals up in space, into IP protocol systems and 5G on the ground. And this is all this is what is driving our software, I call it, our software-defined radio space app strategy, where instead of us making the ground equipment in the modems that talk to large monolithic geostationary orbit satellites that are what, 22,000 miles up and everything is siloed and specific for it, the equipment that we're delivering now and the new stuff that we're going to be delivering next year, as I mentioned, is going to be able to talk to multiple different types of satellites on multiple different types of bands. It's going to be able to hop between military satellites and commercial satellites and go into the 5G infrastructure. And we have in addition to our space individuals, we have a number of telecommunication individuals from the telecommunication industry on staff in leadership positions that are driving the strategy. And as I mentioned, we're actually working with the operators on it. So this is the plan that we have. What we're looking in the next year or two, Josh, for our satellite business, to start growing 10% to 20% a year organically again, that's what we see here.
Josh Sullivan -- The Benchmark -- Analyst
Great. I appreciate the time. Thank you.
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of Ken Herbert from Canaccord. Your line is now open.
Ken Herbert -- Canaccord -- Analyst
Hi, good afternoon. Eric and Deanna. Okay First, I first wanted to just to ask you, you called out, Eric, a couple of potentially large target export drone contracts you could sign in the second half of this year, maybe in the fourth quarter. Can you just provide a little bit more detail on those and clarify whether or not those are currently reflected in the guidance or the expectations? Or could those represent perhaps some upside?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
So they are both international. One of them is an existing customer, but this would be a significant increase in the quantities that they're talking. It's approximately two dozen drones with one of them just under. And the other one is a new customer, brand new. And it's tying directly into what I mentioned, Ken, is these customers are procuring new weapon systems, new radars, and they want to exercise and improve them out against threat representative drones, and we make the highest performance drones in the world. That's just known, both in the target area and in the system area. Relative to the guidance, as you said, I'm hoping, and I think we're going to get these both of these in Q4, they really won't be additive until for us until next year because unlike, say, for like the U.S. Army, where we'll build drones in advance and put them in inventory or put them in capital so we can quick turn them. Since these are international, we don't lean forward, if you know what I mean, until we've got them. And so once we get them, we'll get rolling on them. And so these really will kick in next year for us.
Ken Herbert -- Canaccord -- Analyst
Okay. Helpful. And as I think about your engine business, both TD and KTT, you've obviously been able now to publicly talk about Gray Wolf and what you're doing there. Could you maybe just comment on what some of the next catalyst could be in this business or contracts we should potentially watch out for?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
I think the catalyst that as you know, we have not talked about Gray Wolf. It has been publicly reported a couple of times, including a couple of weeks ago. And that's part of the government contracting and working with the national security customers. The next catalyst that I believe that we can control, and I am hopeful we will be able to communicate on the next earnings call. And then I think the one when we report Q4 and early next year, if our timelines hold on some things, there could be some significant catalysts, are some of the ground tests and air vehicle tests that we're doing, that we're planning to do. And if these go according to plan, hopefully, I'll be able to give some direction on maybe I may not be able to say the program, but I'll be able to say we're on a certain program, and this is the trajection as we start delivering units, and we head into LRIP and maybe full rate production later on. I'm hoping to be able to frame that up, but we're you picked up on it. We're making great progress, and we're getting there. And there's one in particular that KTT is working on that we have not talked about, but this could be the first one where we could have meaningful unit revenues next year.
Ken Herbert -- Canaccord -- Analyst
That's great. And just one final clarification. You called out a couple of times the COVID-related disruption on the commercial business within KTT. Can you maybe size what that was in the quarter, either in an EBITDA or revenue standpoint? Or was it relatively immaterial?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Deanna can call.
Deanna Lund -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Yes. Yes. So Ken, on the commercial turbine business, that's about a $3 million to $5 million impact from a revenue perspective in the quarter.
Ken Herbert -- Canaccord -- Analyst
Great, thanks. Deanna. Thank you very much.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Mike Crawford from B. Riley. Your line is now open.
Mike Crawford -- B. Riley -- Analyst
Thank you. Maybe I should say.
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Good evening, just so we get to cover all our bases
Deanna Lund -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Good evening, Mike.
Mike Crawford -- B. Riley -- Analyst
Yes, OK. So can you talk about the ABMS. So are you qualifying on all seven lines of that effort? And then you said there was some information about the cost ranges for these different categories of vehicles, be they attritable, expendable, whatnot?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Yes. So on the first one, I'm not going to, I apologize because it is competitive. However, on your second question, there was an article that came out last night. I believe it was in Aerospace Aviation Week or something like that, where they talked about, they reported on an ABMS briefing. Where they talked about for ABMS, which is the Internet of which has been categorized or called or referred to as the Internet of Military connectivity that I believe they're looking at disposables, attritables and exquisites. The disposables were $0 to $3 million, I believe. The attritables were $3 million to they were $0 million to $5 million, $5 million to $20 million and $20 million and above, and those were the price points. And they gave some examples of the types of drones. In one of the actual briefings from the Air Force, there were two renditions that left awful close to a couple of hours. So the point of that, Mike, is it's not just Skyborg and it's not just Golden Horde and the LCASD program, but it's also ABMS. It's what DARPA is doing with ACE. And there are several more. This the opportunities for this class of drone is it's growing and it's accelerating.
Mike Crawford -- B. Riley -- Analyst
Okay. And then final question, I know you probably can't, say, talk per se about what your Skyborg competitors are proposing for vehicles, but do you think that you have a good sense of which aircraft each of the other three competitors would be positioning to get on to some of these programs?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Absolutely.
Mike Crawford -- B. Riley -- Analyst
Okay. And you're confident?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
We are highly confident, as always. We're a confident place. And Mike, as I went through in the prepared remarks on why we're confident, we build them today. The supply chain is in place. Four of them are flying today, our partners, the Air Force Research Lab, on and on and on. And we're highly confident that we are the solution that they are looking for in this first round.
Mike Crawford -- B. Riley -- Analyst
All right, thank you very much.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Peter Arment from Baird. Your line is now open.
Eric Ruden -- Baird -- Analyst
Hi, good afternoon. Actually, I'm Eric Ruden on the line for Peter. I just first off, just a housekeeping question. In terms of timeline on the Skyborg, I know last quarter, we were talking about a fifth test flight and concurrent contract award in August-September timeline. Is that now replaced by the 60- to 90-day timeline you mentioned after the down select? Or am I confusing those?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Yes, you're a little just a little confused. The fifth flight was not related to Skyborg. It was related to the LCASD program. And so that is not that is not correlated to Skyborg. They are mutually exclusive.
Eric Ruden -- Baird -- Analyst
Okay. Okay. So is that that timeline still on track for the August-September then?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
On which timeline? Which one?
Eric Ruden -- Baird -- Analyst
The fifth test flight?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
No. That I don't know what's been publicly announced on this, but let's just say, events have changed, so that fifth test flight I don't we don't need to refer to it as that anymore. We've achieved everything we needed to achieve under that program in the flights we completed.
Eric Ruden -- Baird -- Analyst
Okay. And then switching gears on the ASC Signal acquisition, I know I saw you added $20 million of revenue for this year, but any color you can provide on the annual run rate and just margin profile going forward?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Deanna will help me with this one.
Deanna Lund -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Yes. For the $20 million of revenue that we expect it to contribute for the second half, it's roughly about $1 million to $2 million of adjusted EBITDA for the second half associated with that $20 million.
Eric Ruden -- Baird -- Analyst
Okay, thank you. Appreciate the time.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Sheila Kahyaoglu from Jefferies. Your line is now open.
Sheila Kahyaoglu -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Hi, good afternoon, guys and thank you for the time. Eric or Deanna, because it's a numbers' question. I just wanted to talk about the puts and takes for the first half versus the second half, I think you had you mentioned about five points of COVID impact to the top line in the first half. So that will help you from the down 3% organic you have, but how do we get to growth in the second half? You had mentioned some C5ISR contracts. Maybe can you talk about the growth contributions in the second half in terms of revenue for 2020?
Deanna Lund -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Sure. So on the unmanned side, we are expecting awards from a production perspective on some of our programs, so to go into full-rate production. On our Navy program, that's one of the expectations the growth from the first half to the second half as well as some of the contract awards that we've seen in our C5ISR business and in our microwave products business and the anticipated production and deliveries in the second half as well as in our space and satellite business.
Sheila Kahyaoglu -- Jefferies -- Analyst
And does that also help profitability then in terms of the business contributions. Okay. And then...
Deanna Lund -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Yes, so...
Sheila Kahyaoglu -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Sorry.
Deanna Lund -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Go ahead. So it's a favorable mix more favorable mix as well as leverage on the infrastructure cost.
Sheila Kahyaoglu -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Okay. Perfect. And then, Eric, one for you. I guess, I can't help but notice you mentioned 5G comments, and there was some speculation about Kratos and a potential partnership with another large prime. How do you think about your business just given the runway and opportunity that you have?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Our space business, as you know, I've referred to as the...
Sheila Kahyaoglu -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Total company. Sorry, total company, I apologize.
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
For Kratos, our we are we have never been better positioned across the entire company than we are today. All of the work the team has put in on the development programs, on getting designed in positions in our microwave business, our 5G and digital strategy in our space business that we've been working on, we just don't talk about it a lot, I mentioned we're talking to the operators, it's all coming together. And our target drone business continues to just cruise track right along. Obviously, the tactical business, as I mentioned, the total addressable market, it's not only getting bigger, but it appears to be accelerating. We feel great right now, probably better than we've ever felt for the company.
Sheila Kahyaoglu -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Perfect, thank you so much. Eric and Deanna
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Seth Seifman from JPMorgan. Your line is now open.
Ben Arnstein -- JPMorgan -- Analyst
Hey, good afternoon, this is Ben on for Seth. I wanted to quickly ask about give us some more color on the training recompete that you mentioned. That, I guess, is up before the end of this year? Just kind of how should we think about the potential headwind from that in case you don't extend that?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
I will definitely need Deanna's help on this one.
Deanna Lund -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Yes. So Ben, the contribution this year for that contract is at roughly about $35 million, and that will be up for recompete at the end of this year.
Ben Arnstein -- JPMorgan -- Analyst
Okay. And I noticed that the capex guidance has come down since the beginning of the year. I was just kind of wondering what was driving that reduction in your expected spend?
Deanna Lund -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Sure. It's actually classification-related. So if you noticed some of the commentary we put on capex, that the classification on the balance sheet could potentially adjust to other balance sheet items, depending on the nature of the contract. So for instance, initially, we had included in our capex guidance, about $4 million to $5 million of capital targets for our Firejet or a 178 target. Those now that those contracts have been awarded, those have actually been reflected in inventory. So it's not necessarily a change in total investment, but it's just a change in classification on the balance sheet.
Ben Arnstein -- JPMorgan -- Analyst
Okay, makes sense.
Operator
[Operator Instructions] Your next question comes from the line of Michael Ciarmoli from Truist Securities. Your line is now open.
Amanda Lai -- Truist Securities -- Analyst
Everyone, good evening. This is Amanda on for Michael. I just had a quick question on some of the flight testing that you have later in the year or early next year. Is any of that dependent on whether there's a vaccine or solution for COVID? Just wondering if there's any risk in the ongoing environment for it to get pushed out further?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
On the first part, I truly do not know if it's dependent on that. It's customer-driven, and we are working very closely with the customer, the DoD, and honoring and respecting their protocols and restrictions, including travel and social distancing and getting in command centers and things like that. The information I provided today is the most recent information on what is currently scheduled for our flights, and we have a number of other programs that we don't talk about for obvious reasons that are scheduled for flights as well. So that's the most recent information. I'm hoping things can move to the left, but as you are indicating correctly, we've had a few move to the right from when we last spoke to you because the virus situation just got worse. And so that's I know it's not crystal clear, but that's the best we can do. We're literally giving you the best information we have today.
Amanda Lai -- Truist Securities -- Analyst
That's helpful. If I could just ask one more quick question. In your guidance, is there any flexibility built in for the possibility of the CR this year?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
We it just really depends. We that's why we one of the reasons we give a range. We give a range and but it depends on how long it goes, and it depends on if it's just a standard CR, if it's like a few years ago, the government shutdown. Right now, we feel pretty good and based on what we're getting from our contacts in Washington, including our lobbying firms, right now, based on what's being discussed as possible, we feel pretty good about we feel good about our forecast. It's very solid. Our government business, our military business is knocking it out of the park right now. It's literally just knocking it out of the park. And one of the only reason, in my opinion, that we're not doing better than we had forecast is we had some small commercial pockets in primarily in our engine business that where things have been delayed until next year.
Amanda Lai -- Truist Securities -- Analyst
Thank you. That's helpful. Appreciate it.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Pete Skibitski from Alembic Global. Your line is now open.
Pete Skibitski -- Alembic Global -- Analyst
Good afternoon, guys. Eric, can you talk about the sequential growth in backlog? It looks up almost 6% sequentially. And I think somewhere I read that, that does not include ASC. So I'm just wondering if you can maybe give us some of the chunky pieces that led to that growth?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Right. And Deanna, help me one of the bigger chunky pieces is in our C5ISR business.
Deanna Lund -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
You're exactly right. Yes. And that was related to our book-to-bill. Yes.
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Yes. The missile system, radar system, missile defense, and we do some classified systems in there, this is all hardware, is really, really going good and I'll tell you, if things come together the way they look like in the next few months, either our second half and potentially Q3 bookings in that business are going to be incredible. Bookings are going to be incredible. And also, as Deanna mentioned, if timing holds on certain production programs we already have, where we're expecting to go from LRIP to full-rate production and receive those contracts, those full-rate production contracts in the second half, our second half bookings for the company could be very, very strong, which is one of the reasons we're so optimistic about 2021 and beyond.
Pete Skibitski -- Alembic Global -- Analyst
That's great. Kind of related to that with the C5, I think Northrop has said they expect to book their first kind of chunky GBSD award, I think by the end of this month, so should we expect on that basis that maybe you guys get your first chunky order from them by the end of the quarter?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
I'm not we are as I said, Northrop is an incredible partner, and I'm sorry, we will not get ahead of them. So I just got to let this go.
Pete Skibitski -- Alembic Global -- Analyst
Yes. That's fair. Last one for me. Just I'm a little confused on the training programs. The $35 million-a-year program that's coming up for recompete at the end of this year, is that separate from the Saudi Navy program that I think is running down over the next two years? I wasn't sure if that's being recompeted as well or not?
Deanna Lund -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
No, that is the same contract, Pete.
Pete Skibitski -- Alembic Global -- Analyst
It's the same one. Okay. Okay. Perfect. Okay, thanks very much guys.
Deanna Lund -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Thank you, Pete.
Operator
Your next question comes from the line of Joe Gomes from NOBLE Capital. Your line is now open.
Joe Gomes -- NOBLE Capital -- Analyst
Good afternoon. Most of my questions have been answered and but just two quick ones. Eric, last quarter, you talked about you had, I think it was said 200 job openings, you're trying to fill quickly. Given what's been going on with the COVID and some of the programs government programs that have been out there, how has that progressed for you guys?
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
So far, so good. And I chalk it up to, and I'm getting this from our division presidents, that the work that we're doing is extremely interesting. The space work that we're doing, it's we're like a commercial technology company, literally in Colorado Springs, where we were doing our space work and our 5G work. And it's exciting work for these I call them kids, for these kids. And the C5ISR work that we're doing in Pennsylvania. I mean working on these weapon systems and seeing them, it's just it's incredible, very interesting work. And obviously, the drone stuff is really, really interesting. So, so far, so good, but your question is very correct because our hiring plan for the next six months and into Q1 of next year is very strong. So that's an area we the entire team is focused on. We've got to get the right people and with the right clearances to execute the programs.
Joe Gomes -- NOBLE Capital -- Analyst
Okay. And just a technical one. With the offering completed, what's a good number for diluted shares now?
Deanna Lund -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
About 125 million.
Joe Gomes -- NOBLE Capital -- Analyst
125 million. Okay, great. Thank you.
Deanna Lund -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Okay, thanks
Operator
Thank you. There are no further questions at this time, you may continue.
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Very good. Thank you for joining us this afternoon, and we look forward to speaking with you with the next planned call, which should be early November. Thank you very much.
Operator
[Operator Closing Remarks]
Duration: 60 minutes
Call participants:
Marie Mendoza -- Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Eric DeMarco -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Deanna Lund -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Josh Sullivan -- The Benchmark -- Analyst
Ken Herbert -- Canaccord -- Analyst
Mike Crawford -- B. Riley -- Analyst
Eric Ruden -- Baird -- Analyst
Sheila Kahyaoglu -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Ben Arnstein -- JPMorgan -- Analyst
Amanda Lai -- Truist Securities -- Analyst
Pete Skibitski -- Alembic Global -- Analyst
Joe Gomes -- NOBLE Capital -- Analyst
